I remember when I was 11, I did some Kung-fu demonstrations in Hong Kong in 1974.
JET LII spend more time learning about Buddhism than English, which is why my English today is still bad.
More Jet Li Quotes
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I can feel very brave through all the action scenes in front of the people who are on the set, but when a girl comes close to me my face turns red because I’m so shy.
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Bruce Lee was very famous. I watched his movies and he is amazing. He is a martial arts master, his philosophy, his movement, both physically and mentally, were very strong.
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When I lived in Hong Kong, I felt that Hong Kong is my family.
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You need to drop down. Nobody is perfect, nobody is superhero.
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Zhang Yimou tried to use martial arts to talk about Chinese culture, Chinese people. What do they think, what do they want and what do they hope.
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If you are always allowed to stop training whenever you feel discomfort, you will find it too easy to give yourself permission to quit.
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Everywhere I go, I still have time to meditate. People think meditating is sitting there, nobody bothering you, but you can even talk and still meditate
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While films are a very visual and emotional artistic medium, video games take it one step further into the realm of a unique personal experience.
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Hong Kong film audiences are very quiet. It’s their culture.
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Zhang is a friend of mine: he said forget about acting and just do normal things in the movie.
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The audience makes the decision of what kind of actor they want to watch. I always have said in the last 20 years, the real boss is the audience.
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Martial arts have two parts. One is external, other internal. The external is physical part. The internal is philosophy of how to be, what kind of person learns martial arts.
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When you have a friend you work with for 15 years, you become like brothers.
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Usually action films have a formula: good guy gets in trouble, his wife dies, friends have problems, so he goes to the mountain, learns martial arts, comes back, and kills the bad guy.
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I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.
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